Agency quickly deflects talk of anti-hacker measures

Researchers speak at a news conference at NASA's Advanced Supercomputer Facility in Silicon Valley on Dec. 8, 2015.
Credit: Martyn Williams
The D-Wave 2X quantum computer at NASA’s Advanced Supercomputing facility in Silicon Valley is an impressive machine. Engineers from NASA and Google are using it to research a whole new area of computing—one that’s years from commercialization but could revolutionize the way computers solve complex problems.